This gets to the fact that all stories are lies. No one lives happily ever after, for we all die. No one is strong and wins, because strength, weakness, winning and losing are just perceptions that are eventually erased from time.

When you start to intuit that human psychology is heavily based on such soporific narrative, you start to understand how people can be so stupid, both individually and collectively.

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That seems a little glib to me. Not all stories are lies, not all stories have happy endings, some victors are known now thousands of years after their death. On a cosmic timescale I suppose that, trivially, nothing matters - but, conversely, the cosmic timescale is so vast that it doesn't matter to us...

Also I couldn't really parse what you were saying in your second paragraph so I'm gonna leave that there

[–] Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

but, conversely, the cosmic timescale is so vast that it doesn't matter to us...

I agree, stories only matter because we lack objectivity.

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

I'm not sure that anything can objectively be said to 'matter'. So, yeah, I guess? Things only matter to us because we.care about them, sure...